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How to rediscover your individual wants after being part of a couple

My therapist keeps asking what I want now, but I spent thirty years wanting what we wanted and I have no idea who 'I' am.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Long-term partnership can subsume individual desire so completely that recovering personal agency requires rebuilding from scratch.

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